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12 | Newsworthy | Awards RDI announces 2011 student design competition winners his year, the Atlanta chapter of the Retail Design Institute (RDI) hosted the judging of the organization’s annual International Student Store Design Competition. Developed for design students, the competition simulates the real-world conceptual development of a retail store. The goal of the quarter/semester-long curriculum is to give educators a tool that helps students develop a process around how they solve design problems, and to encourage and T recognize emerging design talent. RDI invited all students presently enrolled in a recognized college-level architecture, interior design or environmental design program to enter the competition. RDI also allowed groups to participate. This year, the competition asked students to design a new outlet prototype for ﬁctional retailer Department Store Inc. From the entries, judges selected ﬁrst-, secondand third-place winners for individuals and group entrants, as well as one honorable mention and an Innovation Recognition. Winners received cash prizes of $5,000 (ﬁrst place), $1,500 (second place for individual entrant and ﬁrst place for group entrants) and $1,000 (third place for individual entrants and ﬁrst place for group entrants). The ﬁrst-place winners’ schools (for both individual and group entrants) also were awarded $500. —JESSIE BOVE, MANAGING EDITOR 1st Place Tyler Rink tdrink@gmail.com The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 2nd Place Cammy Davis cammyleannedavis@yahoo.com Bellevue College, Bellevue, Wash. 3rd Place Erin Hurd enh@ksu.edu Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kan. Group Entrant, 1st Place Michelle Cleverdon, Lauren Payne, Ashleigh Wilson mcleverdo@radford.edu; lpayne13@radford.edu; awilson86@radford.edu Radford University, Radford, Va. | July 2011 www.ddionline.com http://www.ddionline.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of DDi - July 2011

DDi - July 2011
Contents
From the Editor
From the Show Director
Newsworthy
Shopper Insights
Greentailing
Editor’s Choice
Design Snapshot
Channel Focus: Big Box
Carlo Pazolini
2011 Fixture Super Section
State of the Fixture Industry Roundtable
2011 Fixture Leaders Listing
2011 Fixture Leaders Company Index
Fixture Products
Right Light
Product Spotlight
Calendar
Advertisers
Classifieds
Think Tank

DDi - July 2011